Example sentences of "[vb base] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched her grow into a tomboy with a smile that encompassed the world ; eyes with the devil inside . |
| 2 | Stack these one on top of the other and , holding the cakes steady with one hand , carve into a whale shape with a sharp knife . |
| 3 | The man who came to tie himself in chains , slip into a sack and magically — with much heaving and groaning — set himself free , had attracted the usual audience of young children . |
| 4 | One Friday afternoon I hand over my gauzy cream tunic and slip into a kind of butcher 's apron , epically and namelessly stained . |
| 5 | Then come to my quarters and leap into a bath . |
| 6 | Hymne D'Amour turned Division One of the Shifnal Novices Hurdle into a procession . |
| 7 | She stoops to pick up the leaves , then drops them as ( by a cut ) they transform into a knife . |
| 8 | It is so exciting to see a really quite overweight lady transform into a slimmer , more vivacious and prettier one . |
| 9 | Even in the more difficult case of an unrehearsed drill movement , the order given will be one of a small set of possible orders which fit into a structure made familiar to all concerned by training . |
| 10 | Some feminist psychologists are trying to understand how the illogicalities of gendered subjectivity fit into a socialization perspective . |
| 11 | Some batteries fit on the end of the camcorder body as shown , others clip onto the side , and still others slot into a compartment within the machine . |
| 12 | This means that the rider can help his horse should he peck on landing or hesitate into a fence . |
| 13 | If teachers tap into this they plug into a powerhouse of emotional — and potentially intellectual — energy . |
| 14 | Presumably , this is what moths are doing when they fly into a candle and are burnt to death . |
| 15 | At the outer rim of awareness , the known and declared nationalists fade into a host that have still to declare themselves . |
| 16 | She watched her big face fade into a still of his Savonarola profile while an actorish voice spoke more of his verse . |
| 17 | Gameboys tap into a fortune |
| 18 | The great British films all tap into a problem , the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed , that is universal but gains a particular inflection from being seen in the British context . |
| 19 | Take a tiny ball of fondant and flatten into a petal shape . |
| 20 | Flatten into a sausage shape and put 2 pieces of meat onto each kebab . |
| 21 | Thus , the aim with most patients should be to move eventually from assessment and support into a problem-solving approach as described in Chapter 5 . |
| 22 | Mould into a basket shape and place on non-stick paper . |
| 23 | He gave me a sudden grin , purple mouth full of little , ivory bits like when you cut into a pomegranate and he was gone . |
| 24 | Felicity 's lips bend into a smile . |
| 25 | Bend into a curve and transfer to non-stick paper . |
| 26 | Waves that break into a heap , waves that break and |
| 27 | The legs break into a run ; the pendulum becomes a spring . |
| 28 | As he started to speak he heard the line go momentarily dead and then break into a callbox paytone . |
| 29 | She suppressed a terrible desire to fold her arms and break into a hornpipe . |
| 30 | The dogs break into a tirade of insubstantial clatter . |